Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Contents:
Introduction: Mapping Embodied Deviance Jacqueline Urla and Jennifer Terry
"Gender, Race and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of 'Hottentot' Women in Europe, 1815 - 1817" Anne Fausto-Sterline
"Framed: The Deaf in the Harem" Nicholas Mirzoeff
"Colonizing and Transforming the Criminal Tribesman: The Salvation Army in British India" Rachel J. Tolen
"This Norm Which Is Not One: Reading the Female Body in Lombroso's Anthropology" David G. Horn
"Anxious Slippages between 'Us' and 'Them': A Brief History of the Scientific Search for Homosexual Bodies" Jennifer Terry
"The Destruction of 'Lives Not Worth Living'" Robert N. Proctor
"Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools: The Power of Authority over Mind and Body" K. Tsianina Lomawaima
"Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality" Carol Groneman
"Theatres of Madness" Susan Jahoda
"The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture" Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund
"Regulated Passions: The Invention of Inhibited Sexual Desire and Sexual Addiction" Janice M. Irvine
"Between Innocence and Safety: Epidemiologic and Popular Constructions of Young People's Need for Safe Sex" Cindy Patton
"The Hen That Can't Lay an Egg (Bu Xia Dan de Mu Ji): Conceptions of Female Infertility in Modern China" Lisa Handwerker
"The Media-ted Gene: Stories of Gender and Race" Dorothy Nelkin aand M. Susan Lindee
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